Where to begin A mindfile preserved on CyBeRev consists of one or more bemes - a unit of personal information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted from one mind to another. Bemes can be recorded in a multiplicity of ways in the CyBeRev database, including: Videos, audio recordings and photos with an optional historical context overlayed based on their dates. A journal as well as text and other documents which may include links to other resources. Statements about your beliefs, morals, politics and other aspects of your life you may wish to record. Lists of things that you like and dislike, your reactions to thought provoking photographs and your biometrics Responses to extensive and comprehensive personality tests developed by Dr. William Sims Bainbridge, a prominent sociologist and the author of many highly regarded publications on social science and personality capture The best place to start is with uploading a profile picture and any other media that you feel expresses one of your personality aspects or bemes. Ideally, record a short video of you expressing an opinion about a subject you believe to be important ... this will help to capture your voice, facial expressions and perhaps some of your more common mannerisms as well. Next, complete the Self II module of the Bainbridge personality assessment which you can find under the "Add Bemes" menu option. This portion of the assessment has three primary goals: Identifying a person's values, self image and ways they might want to improve their character Recording important attitudes including the standards by which a person judges other people and themselves Analyzing a personality in terms of 15 major psychological instruments and fully 310 measurement scales. Also, try answering some of the beliefs, morals and other essay questions. These are intended as prompts to help you think about aspects of your life that you may want to document. That's it ... a GREAT start to your mindfile! Come back frequently and add new experiences while they are fresh in your mind. Keep checking for updates to our tools too - CyBeRev is (and will always be) a work in progress, adapting to your needs and ever changing technology!
Where to begin
A mindfile preserved on CyBeRev consists of one or more bemes - a unit of personal information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted from one mind to another. Bemes can be recorded in a multiplicity of ways in the CyBeRev database, including:
The best place to start is with uploading a profile picture and any other media that you feel expresses one of your personality aspects or bemes. Ideally, record a short video of you expressing an opinion about a subject you believe to be important ... this will help to capture your voice, facial expressions and perhaps some of your more common mannerisms as well.
Next, complete the Self II module of the Bainbridge personality assessment which you can find under the "Add Bemes" menu option. This portion of the assessment has three primary goals:
Also, try answering some of the beliefs, morals and other essay questions. These are intended as prompts to help you think about aspects of your life that you may want to document.
That's it ... a GREAT start to your mindfile! Come back frequently and add new experiences while they are fresh in your mind. Keep checking for updates to our tools too - CyBeRev is (and will always be) a work in progress, adapting to your needs and ever changing technology!
How participant statistics are calculated The overall score consists of 20% of the "Biography" score, 40% of the "Personality" score and 40% of the "Media" score. The "Biography" percent score represents the number of responses in your autobiography, beliefs, morals and politics sections divided by the total number of questions in each. The autobiography responses comprise 40% of the Biography score while the remaining three comprise 20% each. The "Personality" percent score represents the number of the Bainbridge personality assessment questions & statements completed in each category divided by the total number available in each category. The Self II category is weighted as 20% of the Personality score while the remaining categories are rated at 10% except for Beliefs I & II, Association & Year 2100 which each comprise 5% of the score. The "Media" percent score represents the total size of the photos, videos, audio recordings, journals and document files uploaded divided by the current upload limit to yield a percentage complete.
How participant statistics are calculated
The overall score consists of 20% of the "Biography" score, 40% of the "Personality" score and 40% of the "Media" score.
The "Biography" percent score represents the number of responses in your autobiography, beliefs, morals and politics sections divided by the total number of questions in each. The autobiography responses comprise 40% of the Biography score while the remaining three comprise 20% each.
The "Personality" percent score represents the number of the Bainbridge personality assessment questions & statements completed in each category divided by the total number available in each category. The Self II category is weighted as 20% of the Personality score while the remaining categories are rated at 10% except for Beliefs I & II, Association & Year 2100 which each comprise 5% of the score.
The "Media" percent score represents the total size of the photos, videos, audio recordings, journals and document files uploaded divided by the current upload limit to yield a percentage complete.
More information about the future of cyberconsciousness CyBeRev means cybernetic beingness revival. The purpose of CyBeRev is to prevent death by preserving sufficient information about a person so that recovery remains possible by foreseeable technology. If CyBeRev people are recoverable in the future, then they were never really dead in the first place. Real death occurs when information about a person becomes so disorganized that no technology could restore the original state. This is called the information-theoretic criterion for death. Various definitions of death, such as cessation of heartbeat, have been abandoned as technology (such as defibrillators) demonstrated recovery was possible. The Terasem Movement believes that future technology will be able to recover full functionality for CyBeRev people as follows: 1. Before legal death is declared, a CyBeRev person stores digital bemes of their mannerisms, personality, recollections, feelings, beliefs, attitudes and values with as great a fidelity as is possible; 2. Future developments in software technology (such as mindware and thoughtware) will enable the stored CyBeRev information to be organized into a coherent consciousness and sense of self indistinguishable from the original CyBeRev person; 3. Future developments in virtual reality technology will enable the recovered conscious CyBeRev person to enjoy a robust life within cyberspace; 4. Future developments in mind-uploading technology will enable the recovered conscious CyBeRev person to transfer their mind into a synthetic body (including brain), such as one made out of nanotechnological materials, providing mobility and sensation that will continually improve until it is equivalent to, and eventually superior to, human mobility and sensation; 5. Future developments in regenerative medicine will enable the recovered cyberconscious CyBeRev person to mind transfer into a flesh body (including brain) grown from totipotent stem cells (which may but need not be based upon their original DNA) in which genetic engineering techniques have suppressed the development of a separate mind. 6. Future developments in human emulating robotics will enable mankind to design, develop, produce and distribute revolutionary, interactive bio-inspired conversational robots.
More information about the future of cyberconsciousness
CyBeRev means cybernetic beingness revival. The purpose of CyBeRev is to prevent death by preserving sufficient information about a person so that recovery remains possible by foreseeable technology. If CyBeRev people are recoverable in the future, then they were never really dead in the first place. Real death occurs when information about a person becomes so disorganized that no technology could restore the original state. This is called the information-theoretic criterion for death. Various definitions of death, such as cessation of heartbeat, have been abandoned as technology (such as defibrillators) demonstrated recovery was possible. The Terasem Movement believes that future technology will be able to recover full functionality for CyBeRev people as follows:
1. Before legal death is declared, a CyBeRev person stores digital bemes of their mannerisms, personality, recollections, feelings, beliefs, attitudes and values with as great a fidelity as is possible;
2. Future developments in software technology (such as mindware and thoughtware) will enable the stored CyBeRev information to be organized into a coherent consciousness and sense of self indistinguishable from the original CyBeRev person;
3. Future developments in virtual reality technology will enable the recovered conscious CyBeRev person to enjoy a robust life within cyberspace;
4. Future developments in mind-uploading technology will enable the recovered conscious CyBeRev person to transfer their mind into a synthetic body (including brain), such as one made out of nanotechnological materials, providing mobility and sensation that will continually improve until it is equivalent to, and eventually superior to, human mobility and sensation;
5. Future developments in regenerative medicine will enable the recovered cyberconscious CyBeRev person to mind transfer into a flesh body (including brain) grown from totipotent stem cells (which may but need not be based upon their original DNA) in which genetic engineering techniques have suppressed the development of a separate mind.
6. Future developments in human emulating robotics will enable mankind to design, develop, produce and distribute revolutionary, interactive bio-inspired conversational robots.
CyBeRev is a form of cyberbiotechnological time-travel, in which an ailing person is transported into a future time when cyberbiotechnology is advanced enough to manage their medical issue. A good analogy is the medical space-travel that occurs today when a person is severely injured in a remote jungle. If left in the jungle, they would die. But by transporting them to a modern hospital their vitality can often be restored. For CyBeRev people, the “modern hospital” is in the future rather than in another country. CyBeRev may also be of value to cryonauts because it is not clear how much memory will be preserved after cryogenic revival. A person’s CyBeRev self can help fill in any blanks. Cryonicists may also see value in CyBeRev as a back-up strategy in case their bodies perish prior to biostasis being performed. Terasem believes CyBeRev is crucially important because inter-generational life-spans directly implement our core belief in diversity, unity and joyful immortality. Consequently, Terasem is committed to using its resources to educate the public regarding CyBeRev and to accomplishing demonstration projects amongst its members.
CyBeRev is a form of cyberbiotechnological time-travel, in which an ailing person is transported into a future time when cyberbiotechnology is advanced enough to manage their medical issue. A good analogy is the medical space-travel that occurs today when a person is severely injured in a remote jungle. If left in the jungle, they would die. But by transporting them to a modern hospital their vitality can often be restored. For CyBeRev people, the “modern hospital” is in the future rather than in another country.
CyBeRev may also be of value to cryonauts because it is not clear how much memory will be preserved after cryogenic revival. A person’s CyBeRev self can help fill in any blanks. Cryonicists may also see value in CyBeRev as a back-up strategy in case their bodies perish prior to biostasis being performed.
Terasem believes CyBeRev is crucially important because inter-generational life-spans directly implement our core belief in diversity, unity and joyful immortality. Consequently, Terasem is committed to using its resources to educate the public regarding CyBeRev and to accomplishing demonstration projects amongst its members.
The Terasem Hypotheses:
1. An adequately detailed and organized set of digital bemes of a person's mannerisms, personality, recollections, feelings, beliefs, attitudes and values captures their consciousness in a state of biostasis, and when coupled with future software that elicits the consciousness immanent in such digital reflections, will enable the person to be revived, feel alive, and enjoy a sense of conscious continuity with themselves.
2. A revived cyber-conscious person, with future technology, may be downloaded into a nanobiotechnological body, based either primarily on nanotechnology or primarily on a body regenerated from a stem cell with its unique mind suppressed, and may thereafter continue their life with the same sense of self as when they originally stored digital bemes of themselves for future revival.
The primary mission of the Terasem Movement, Inc. is to test the Terasem Hypotheses first by collecting digital bemes and later, as software technology advances, by attempting revitalization of such consciousness in computerized biostasis.
